Catherine Helen Spence, Clara Morison (review)
Her uncle determines that … Clara will be sent out to South Australia with a letter of recommendation and £10 in her purse.
Catherine Helen Spence, An Autobiography (review)
by Emma, I was 30 years old before the dark veil of religious despondency was completely lifted from my soul, and by that time I felt myself booked for a single life. People married young if they married at all in those days
Louise Mack, Teens and Girls together
by Whispering Gums and Bill Holloway A combined review of Louise Mack’s companion novels about young women, Girls together and Teens. ...
Kylie Tennant, Ride on Stranger (review)
Without a roof over her, or food, or money, Shannon would stay herself, as independent as a song
Kylie Tennant, Tiburon (review)
Compassion was, indeed, a scarce commodity in the thirties, vanishing underground with the stream of money and leaving us with dry eroded faces, cracked into grim lines, a desperate humour to defend us from grief
Catherine Helen Spence, A Week in the Future (review)
In the hundred years that had elapsed since I had known the world, first had come a cataclysm sweeping away the old foundations and much that had been reared upon them, and from these had gradually emerged a new society
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